Leonor Ferrão is Associate Professor with “Agregação” at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, with a degree in Architecture from the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon, and a MSc and PhD in History of Art in the Specialty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Modern Era from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon. She is an historian of architecture and design. She supervises several MSc and PhD research projects in three scientific areas: architecture, design and art history.

Main fields of teaching: history of architecture of the modern era, history and theory of design, design criticism, creative cognition in design.

Main fields of research and publication: history of architecture of the modern era, history of design and creative cognition in design.